Writing Connections to Further Support Literacy Skills:
1. Write a letter to your Character (See 4th Week Activities).
2. Write invitations for the Storytelling Festival
3. Objects in a Bag activity (See 5th Week Activities).
4. Fractured Tales (from Children Tell Stories, pg. 39):
Make the story happen in a different time and place
Change the basic problem.
Tell the story from the point of view of one of the characters.
change the main character in some way (personality traits, gender, or physical appearance).
Have characters switch roles.
Change the moral.
Change the ending.
5. Write your own Pourquoi or "Why" Tales: explain why or how something came to be.
6. Further Adventures (from Children Tell Stories, p. 57):
Choose a character from a story and write a new story in which the character encounters a new problem and adventures.
Hamilton, Martha and Weiss, Mitch. Children Tell Stories: Teaching and Using Storytelling in the Classroom. Katonah, NY: Richard C. Owen, 2005.
1. Write a letter to your Character (See 4th Week Activities).
2. Write invitations for the Storytelling Festival
3. Objects in a Bag activity (See 5th Week Activities).
4. Fractured Tales (from Children Tell Stories, pg. 39):
- Make the story happen in a different time and place
- Change the basic problem.
- Tell the story from the point of view of one of the characters.
- change the main character in some way (personality traits, gender, or physical appearance).
- Have characters switch roles.
- Change the moral.
- Change the ending.
5. Write your own Pourquoi or "Why" Tales: explain why or how something came to be.6. Further Adventures (from Children Tell Stories, p. 57):
Hamilton, Martha and Weiss, Mitch. Children Tell Stories: Teaching and Using Storytelling in the Classroom. Katonah, NY: Richard C. Owen, 2005.